We now have settlement services in two official Afghan languages, Dari and Pashto. Watch our videos from one of our Settlement Workers in Dari, Pashto, or English to learn more about our settlement services. In Dari with English Subtitles In Pashto with English Subtitles In English with English Subtitles
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Are you struggling with your English? Is your lack of language skills hindering your career prospects? How about a program that is offered absolutely for free, which you can enrol in at anytime? Our government-funded Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) Program could be the perfect choice for you. On May 5, 2021, specialists from our adult English-language
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When Amanda moved to Canada as a permanent resident eight years ago, she could barely speak a word of English. Having lived her entire life in Fuzhou, an old port city in China’s southeastern province of Fujian – famous for its tea plantations and exports – she clearly didn’t need to. Her son was two
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Human trafficking is a harsh reality that exists in Canada as much as anywhere in this world. More than 1,700 cases have been reported in the country over the past decade; yet, it is underreported, overlooked and mired in misconceptions. Why does it exist? How does such an illegal trade prevail in one of the
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Our session on Coping with Stress was on November 10, 2020. Specialists from our MNLCT’s Mental Health Team talked about how to deal with stress and how their successful LIGHTS program is helping individuals cope with traumatic experiences. Language Instruction Giving Hope to Trauma Survivors (LIGHTS) is an alternative language program that provides functional English as a
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Our session on Housing and Tenant Rights was on October 14, 2020. If you missed it, you can click below to watch the recording. Members of MNLCT’s well-experienced Settlement Team and our guest speaker, Joe Myers, a lawyer and director of Willowdale Community Legal Services, fielded questions from attendees and discussed the many challenges that newcomers face in securing affordable,
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Our first webinar to kick off our new monthly series was Session 6: New English (LINC) Classes. If you missed our live session on September 9, 2020, click below to watch the recording. Speakers from MNLCT’s adult education program discussed the start of new classes this month with options of attending online or in-person at our Victoria Park
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Thank you for your patience as we continue to respond to a cybersecurity incident affecting our communication systems.
We are happy to share an important update — we are now able to send outgoing emails. Going forward, you will receive our emails from our new domain, @mnlc.ca, in addition to our temporary Gmail addresses. Please watch for us in your inbox.
If you haven’t already, you can sign up to receive email updates from us directly here.
All our offices will be closed from Monday, June 29th, to Friday, July 3rd inclusive.
LINC, Mental Health, and Bridging programs are available virtually on Monday, June 29, and Tuesday, June 30.
Community Health Services is available virtually on Tuesday, June 30.
We will reopen on Monday, July 6th.
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We know it has been frustrating and difficult to reach us during this time, and we sincerely apologize for that. Please know that all our programs and services are running and staff are ready to support you. For getting in touch with us, please continue to use our temporary Gmail addresses:
Or drop in to our Keele location (2737 Keele St, units 9, 111, 112, North York) or Finch location (1122 Finch Ave West, Unit 1, North York) during office hours:
We take your privacy seriously and kindly ask that you do not share sensitive personal information via email.
Thank you for your understanding. We appreciate the many kind words of empathy shared by our community, and we look forward to being fully operational again. We will continue to share updates as our systems are restored.